Budget Deficits The OMB (the White House agency with responsibility for the budget) pegged the upcoming budget deficit at $300b–this is basically a direct projection based on the fact that…

…by Peter Orszag, the former director of OMB under Mr. Obama. The title of the piece says all you need to know: “Best Fix for Postal Service Is to Take…

…was hatched between the bill’s creators and the Bush administration, specifically the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Rather than paying for retiree health costs on a pay-as-you-go basis, as…

…decrease from the prior year’s estimate of 7.87 percent.” Page 39 of 45, FY 2020 OMB Supplemental Data Call, Department of Health and Human Services, HHS.pdf (cfo.gov). CMS submits an…

…In their letter, the top senators on the Senate Appropriations Committee told the OMB: “Just as the President does not have a line-item veto, he does not have the ability…

…“shall incorporate . . . review and approval of agency funding opportunity announcements by one or more senior appointees or their designees; continuation of existing coordination with OMB [the Office…

…Office (CBO), the President’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT). First stop is the U.S. Treasury Department’s Bureau of Public Debt and their…

…switch). Instead of an answer. I would ask two beginning questions: Is this a trend? Should I be increasingly concerned about our supply chain? From OMB Watch alert Letting the…

The Office of Management and Budget is proposing a set of new rules that would put OMB officials in charge of all federal scientific grants, allowing them to overrule peer…

…natural gas, other than the odd city bus or garbage truck in random municipalities? The answer is a simple but unpleasant one. See, we in the US would label the…